Prerelease Mac Portable?

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Mon Jun 7 11:41:04 2004

> >Maybe not -- it's apparently not bootable. Dead disk, it seems.
>
> From the description, it sounds like it is just another dead Apple SCSI
> drive. I have gone thru stacks of these 40 and 80 MB drives from Apple
> (all Conner I believe, just like the one pictured). They seem to have
> motor failures and stop spinning.
>
> But the Portable uses a standard 3.5" SCSI drive, so it is fairly trivial
> to swap the drive. Granted it lessens the "value" if it carries a
> different drive, but since I've already been outbid, I'll stick with the
> idea that it will exceed my price threshold before it sells. :-)

My Portable has a weird interface connected to the Conner, though. I think
it's a 40-pin variety.

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